Empower 2000 Team

Joseph Peck, M.D. (Co-founder and President)

Dr. Joseph Peck is a friend of God dreaming big dreams with Him to bring Heaven to Earth. He is passionate to see people come to know God’s deep, abiding love and to experience His Presence daily. His deepest desire is to see God’s children AWAKENED to be all and do all He created them for.

Joseph is the great connector empowering dreams of millions. He connects people, ideas, and resources in Christ for creative miracles.

Known as THE Time Doctor, The Journal Guy, and The Connector, Dr. Peck is a physician, author, international speaker, creative marketing and communication strategist, and dream coach. His passion is creating a movement Empowering Dreams of millions of people globally through coaching, journaling, and life-changing webinars.

His Kingdom mandate is to POWER NETWORK God’s army around the world—network the networks and connect people, ideas, and resources in Christ for creative miracles.

As a revolutionary coach, breakthrough strategist, and global thought leader for life-changing webinars, he catalyzes the transformation of people, organizations, and communities.

Dr. Peck is a master at assembling and facilitating high performance dream teams (mastermind groups). He communicates weekly with groups of business and thought leaders around the world.

He coaches busy thought leaders and people of influence to SIMPLIFY their complicated lives and LEVERAGE THEIR TIME for massive impact.

His favorite testimonial came from Larry Tyler, a business coach, who wrote: “Joseph is the Maestro, making the entire orchestra speak with one voice! God has called him and given him the gifts and talent to take so many different individuals (instruments & sounds) and blend them together, so disciplined and so coordinated into Sound Alignment.”

Joseph is a prolific journaler and communicator, having written several books, including “I Was Busy Now I’m Not: Changing the Way You Think about Time“ and created numerous online classes and study guides.

Ella Chirinos (VP Operations and Partner Liaison)

Ella Chirinos’s work ethic is based on maximizing every present opportunity to reflect the Holy Spirit’s excellence. Her greatest skills include attention to detail, planning and executing goals, and effective intercultural communication. Her joy is basking in God’s smile and obeying His commands because she knows that “in Jesus, the limits are off.”

Her current responsibilities include:

• • Overseeing many of the daily operations
  • Partner liaison
  • Oversight of project managers
  • Strategic planning
  • Scheduling events

Shelli Miller (Team Builder and Group Facilitator)

Shelli Miller is a passionate Christian with over 30 years of experience handling large projects. She is an experienced troubleshooter with a strong background in both virtual and in-person customer service. Her skills include expert communication, leadership, customer service, marketing, sales, trouble shooting, event planning, task management, critical thinking, discussion facilitation, and public speaking.

Her responsibilities include:

• • Counselor for Joseph
  • Team Building
  • Group facilitation, both large and small
  • Speaker
  • Event planning

Tessa Hall (Copywriter)

Tessa Hall is a copywriter and award-winning author who has a deep passion for using the power of words to draw people closer to Jesus. She is the founder of Salt and Light Copywriting LLC and an author of fiction and non-fiction books for young women. She views copywriting as a form of ministry, a bridge between individuals and the spiritually enriching services and products they seek. Her background in publishing, encompassing roles as both an acquisitions editor and literary agent, provides her with a unique ability for bridging the gap between individuals and their ideal audience.

Tessa has contributed to multiple publications including Devozine, Guide Magazine, Crosswalk, and Keys for Kids. She is especially grateful to be part of the Empower team, as it aligns with her personal mission to empower individuals to embrace their unique potential and God-given dreams, advancing the kingdom of God.

Her responsiblities include: 

• Overseeing and mapping out follow-up email campaigns
• Crafting copy for the follow-up email campaigns

Katherine Haag (Transcription, Editing)

Katherine Haag has a strong gift of administration. She received a bachelor’s degree with a double major in Sacred Music and Bible Studies from Miami Christian College in 1976 and spent many years in church music. Her diverse non-profit Christian work has included serving as an arts and crafts director for an inner-city children’s camp, administrative assistant for the Salvation Army, and office management for Jews for Jesus. Throughout her secretarial career, Katherine has most often been in demand for her typing, transcription, and editing skills, which has comprised most of her duties wherever she has worked, utilizing her amazing attention to detail.

Her current responsibilities include:

• Creating and editing study guides for webinars and classes
• Overseeing transcription services
• Updating member sites

Celene Grace Zulla (Pre and post production)

A trained nurse, Celene has been a part of the Empower 2000 Team for over 10 years as an administrative assistant, working in a variety of capacities that fuel her creative drive. She has learned to think outside the box, creating PowerPoints for classes and webinars, serving as a graphic designer, and doing video editing. Originally from the Philippines, Celene currently lives in Australia with her husband and son.

Her current responsibilities include:

• • Administrative assistant
  • Helps with pre and post-production for live global broadcasts, including creating professional PowerPoints, editing videos, etc.

Mary Melika Shoda (Facilitation, Training, Teaching)

Mary has a strong gift and experience in adult education and public speaking. She earned degrees in Psychology from the University of Illinois, Master of Science in Business Management, and certification as Professional in Human Resources (PHR). She served for over 20 years in corporate training and development, as well as Human Resources management.

Currently, Mary is President, Aglow International, Milwaukee chapter, and has served in prison ministries, evangelism to Jews, and evangelistic outreaches into the inner city, neighborhoods, and shopping malls, plus several foreign missions trips to the middle east.

Mary’s passion and God-driven dream is to see believers around the world rise up into their God-given dreams and destiny and to rule and reign with Christ in all seven mountains upon the earth. Her passion is also to see Jews, Arabs and the nations rise up as One New Man in Christ, as well as racial reconciliation, understanding, respect, appreciation, and love among all racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

Her current responsibilities include:

• • Legacy Dream Team coach
  • Prayer team lead facilitator
  • Zoom and webinar technical management and facilitation

Daniel (Dan) Morgan (Bookkeeper)

Daniel has enjoyed working with numbers for over 50 years. He started working with numbers as an inventory control clerk for a multi-million dollars corporation in 1970 tracking three to five million dollars of monthly inventory turnover. He has been a full-charge bookkeeper for small privately held corporations and helped Mom and Pop operations stay focused on their passions by tracking the financial details on their behalf. He was a Chaplain Assistant in the Army and earned certifications as a Chaplain’s Non-Appropriated Fund Clerk and Fund Manager. In 1993 he earned a Certificate of General Studies from Central Texas College, later continued studies in Business Administration at Brookdale College. Daniel is the co-founder and one of the managing partners of First Class Enterprises, LLC dba Morgan Business Solutions providing services in bookkeeping, mobile notary in Kansas, and performing arts.

His current responsibilities include:

• • Bookkeeping